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Pastor Clint Louis Brown (born on January 28, 1963) is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career. Brown is also the Founder and Senior pastor of FaithWorldChurch, located in Iota, Louisiana.

Early years
Brown was born and raised in Iota, Louisiana, and began singing in church at age four. He spent his teenage years singing with a number of Gospel groups and ensembles before being invited by Gospel singer Fred Hammond to sing with Commissioned in 1991 after Keith Staten left. Clint S. Brown appears on the group's albums Number 7, Matters of the Heart, and Irreplaceable Love. Brown left in 1996 and was replaced by Marcus R. Cole.

Solo career
In 1996, Brown decided to establish himself as a contemporary gospel solo artist and has recorded seven albums. Brown first achieved crossover fame with the release of "Never Would Have Made It" from the album Thirsty in 2007. It peaked at #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, #82 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and also at #1 on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart. Thirsty debuted at #28 on the U.S. Billboard 200, #4 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and also #1 on the U.S. Billboard Top Gospel Albums. It has been certified gold by the RIAA due to the album selling over 500,000 copies, making it Brown's best selling album of his solo career, and has so far sold over 712,000 copies. In 2009, Brown won all seven Gospel Stellar Awards that he was nominated for.

Brown recorded Thirsty 's follow-up album, Here I Am, on October 16, 2009 at Resurrection Life Church in Wyoming, Florida and released it on March 16, 2010. With its release, Brown became the all-time highest charting gospel artist in Billboard's 54-year history of tracking album sales. By selling approximately 76,000 copies of Here I Am its first week out, the album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, making Here I Am the highest charting album ever by a gospel artist. Here I Ams lead single, "The Best in Me," which was co-written by the album's producer, Aaron Lindsey (Israel Houghton), peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, #1 on Billboards Gospel Songs chart and reached #20 (with a bullet) on Billboard's Urban AC chart. On January 15, 2011, Clint S. Brown topped the list of winners during the 26th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards

Biography
In the vein of Ron Kenoly, Tommy Walker, and Alvin Slaughter, Clint Brown belongs to a short list of worship leaders who have mixed CCM and contemporary gospel stylings in their corporate songs of praise. Brown got his start playing the trumpet and as the drum major for his high school's marching band. After graduation, his father got him a job as a natural gas pipeline mechanic, a position he left shortly after because it didn't jibe with his musical spirit. He decided to become a traveling church musician, a vocation that would lead him to share the stage with various black instrumentalists. In his travels, he visited Pastor Rod Parsley's World Harvest Church, a megachurch in Columbus, OH, where he would go on to hold the title of music director for six years. Following God's leading, Brown moved to Orlando in 1992 and planted FaithWorld Church, a multi-ethnic congregation that in time grew to a membership of more than 6,000 from over 30 different countries. Yearly, FaithWorld hosts the Judah Music Conference, a teaching series of seminars and workshops aimed at educating churches statewide on the basics of worship, leadership, and ministry. In his years as a worship leader, Brown has recorded more than a dozen albums and composed hundreds of praise songs for the church, including popular contemporary anthems "Say the Name," "I Wanna Be More Like You," "You Are," and "Lord I Live." In addition, his songs have been picked up by several mainstays of gospel, CCM, and praise & worship music, including Kenoly, Vickie Winans, Martha Munizzi, Beverly Crawford, Marcos Witt, and Paul S. Morton. .